With global warming, temperatures are getting higher every year.<br />If the Antarctic seems to be more resistant to this climate change than the Arctic, specialists are concerned.<br />The Antarctic ice pack experienced a record melt in February 2022, reaching its lowest level since records began in 1978.<br />At the end of the austral summer, it was measured only 1.9 million km2.<br />This is 30% less than the average between 1981 and 2010 and this is the first time that the Antarctic ice pack has fallen below 2 million km2.<br />According to an American study, East Antarctica was hit by an unprecedented heat wave in March.<br />In the western Amundsen Sea and the eastern Ross Sea, the ice pack had completely disappeared by February 25, 2022.<br />This year, the sea ice had started to retreat to retreat earlier in the year (from the beginning of September) and its recovery was late (end of February).
